Saturday 19 October 2013 19.05 EDT
First published on Saturday 19 October 2013 19.05 EDT

This absorbing survey of British 20th-century sonatas is remarkable for the totally consistent quality of Alexander Baillie and John Thwaites's playing and the good taste they bring to their interpretations of examples by Frank Bridge, Frederick Delius, John Ireland, Rebecca Clarke, Ivor Keys and Edmund Rubbra. It's an outstanding partnership: take, for example, their glorious handling of Ireland's beautiful slow movement in his Sonata in G minor (1923), their wonderfully broad opening of Bridge's Sonata in D minor (1913), or the grace they engender in the central movement of Clarke's impressionistic sonata of 1919. Throughout, Baillie's rewardingly intelligent phrasing is matched by Thwaites's warm, generous, perfectly judged pianism.